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Nearly one in three children under age five in the Philippines is stunted, a key marker of undernutrition. This rate is … of stunting in the Philippines, using data from the 2015 National Nutrition Survey. Potential drivers are analyzed …
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and shortest path to meet rising food needs. Using examples from farmers' maize and rice fields, and comparisons with Asia …
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impact on agricultural production decisions remains limited. Data from 1,200 Ghanaian rice farmers suggest that noncognitive …, and technical efficiency in rice production, and that the size of the estimated impacts exceeds that of traditional human …
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world price of rice on the regional economy of Vietnam, and the Vietnamese policy response to limit exports. Although … Standard Survey data) show that recent rice export quotas resulted in falls total rural savings as measured by the difference … in total income less total production cost and consumption of rice. The structure of the paper is as follows. Section two …
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penetrating international markets. Such progress will contribute substantially to the government's rice sector policy of exporting … place its rice in international markets given a more detailed analysis of its current and potential customers …In 2010, Cambodia exported 40,000 metric tons of rice. In 2013, Cambodia exported nearly 400,000 metric tons ofrice to …
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be time-varying, thus allowing yields to diverge in some interim phases. Rice yields across districts appear to be …
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The combination of conflict, food insecurity, and displacement generates competing claims for financial resources that stretch the donors' ability to provide funding and the humanitarian organizations' capacity to provide social assistance. The paper uses Receiver Operating Characteristic curves...
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Malnutrition is a huge burden on the Arab Republic of Egypt's economy. Undernutrition-manifested by poor linear growth (stunting), wasting, and micronutrient deficiencies in children and by anemia among women of reproductive age-collectively saps an estimated two percent of Egypt's annual gross...
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